Hi I’m Kerri Ryan and this is a bit about me.

The goddess and the sacred feminine has interested me from the sidelines for up to fifteen years. My disenchantment with patriarchal religions in which I found scant reference to the feminine, has seen me seek alternative expressions of the divine, immersing myself in the manifold expressions of the new age movement throughout the 1990s. 

For me, that involved finding meaning in a relationship with the sacred as it manifests in nature, in other individuals and in universal consciousness, rather than in doctrine or dogmatic belief systems as set down by any one distinct religious practice.  It also encouraged me to find the divinity inherent within myself and to heal the separation between body and spirit.  And while acceptance of body and self in all its imperfections is still a challenge for me and many other women, I am becoming.

I was a workshop junkie throughout the new age of the 1990’s, trying to find my “thing”.  Living in Perth, I became a massage therapist, Seichim practitioner, Reiki Master, cranio sacral practitioner, a chakra dancer, counselor and indulger in numerous other healing therapies, but the goddess remained an underlying theme throughout. 

I moved back to my hometown of Brisbane in 2003 and in 2005 I underwent training to become a Kundalini dance facilitator with a teacher in Byron Bay.  This intensely physical and practical training was aimed at opening the energetic centres of the body known as chakras, to facilitate the awakening of the kundalini serpent energy within the body.  Eastern religious practices and philosophies have for millennia cultivated the sexual energy inherent within the body known as kundalini, and it is this very energy that tantric practitioners utilise to awaken transcendent experiences of union with the divine. 

Soon after completion of my training I travelled to India, spending time in Pune at the Osho Ashram cultivating meditation techniques and working with kundalini energy.  On returning to Australia, I have taught kundalini dance workshops for three years, and have a theoretical, practical and personal understanding of this powerful sexual energy and the transcendent spiritual states able to be reached when employing techniques that raise this energy.

It was in 2006, in conjunction with my Masters studies that I joined an Order of Goddess women called the Pomegranate Grove.  There I underwent training in Goddess Lore to become an initiated priestess of the Order on the Summer Solstice, December 2007.  My second level initiation as Hand Maiden of Goddess took place in April 2009.  I have become active within the Order, and as the Promotions Officer, I produce the organisation’s quarterly newsletter. 

With my Masters in Religion now complete I feel the academic pull to embark on a PhD thesis unnecessary.  The very masculine pursuit of living in the head distracts me from being in my physical feminine presence and I feel drawn this year to open my heart and share my knowledge and experiences with other women as I offer workshops and pursue my writing.

At 47 years of age, I find myself on my own, with no kids and often think of that phrase “Oops!  I forgot to have children”, but I understand that was not my path this lifetime.  I live in Brisbane and instead of being lonely, I feel my world continuing to open up, as for the first time I have direction, I have wisdom and maturity, and I actually understand my purpose for being here. That is to share my knowledge and experiences and to help women understand that the sacred feminine is not about striving for perfection or being holy or spiritually pure like Mother Mary.  The sacred feminine embraces the Magdalene, our flaws, our failures, our desires and sexual nature. 

Write to me and tell me your own experiences.  

Goddess Bless

Kerri  © 2009